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  2. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and ...

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    General formatting requirements include recommendations on paper and margin sizes, options as to the choice of typeface, the spacing and indentation of text, pagination, and the use of titles. Formatting requirements for specific elements include the ordering and formatting of content in the front matter, main matter (text), and back matter of ...

  3. Margin (typography) - Wikipedia

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    A diagram displaying equal margins of width 25mm on an A4 page. In typography, a margin is the area between the main content of a page and the page edges. [1] The margin helps to define where a line of text begins and ends. When a page is justified the text is spread out to be flush with the left and right margins.

  4. Standard manuscript format - Wikipedia

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    8.5"×11" or A4 paper size. Courier or a similar monospaced serif font. 12-point (10 pitch) or 10-point (12 pitch) font size. Double-spaced lines of text (set in a word processor as 24-point or 20-point line spacing according to the chosen font size). 24 or 25 lines of text. 1, 1.25 or 1.5 inch margins. Paragraph indentation of 0.5 inches.

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Layout

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    An image that would otherwise overwhelm the text space available within a 1024×768 window should generally be formatted as described in relevant formatting guidelines (e.g. WP:IMAGESIZE, MOS:IMGSIZE, Help:Pictures § Panoramas). Try to harmonize the sizes of images on a given page in order to maintain visual coherence.

  6. IMRAD - Wikipedia

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    Fig.1: Wineglass model for IMRaD structure. The above scheme shows how to line up the information in IMRaD writing. It has two characteristics: the first is its top-bottom symmetric shape; the second is its change of width, meaning the top is wide, and it narrows towards the middle, and then widens again as it goes down toward the bottom.

  7. Newspaper format - Wikipedia

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    A Swedish daily newspaper in broadsheet format, 1980. Newspaper formats vary substantially, with different formats more common in different countries. The size of a newspaper format refers to the size of the paper page; the printed area within that can vary substantially depending on the newspaper. [1]

  8. MLA Handbook - Wikipedia

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    MLA Handbook grew out of the initial MLA Style Sheet of 1951 [5] (revised in 1970 [6] [7]), a 28-page "more or less official" standard. [8] The first five editions, published between 1977 and 1999 were titled MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Avoid using smaller font sizes within page elements that already use a smaller font size, such as most text within infoboxes, navboxes, and references sections. [g] This means that <small>...</small> tags, and templates such as {} and {}, should not be applied to plain text within those elements. In no case should the resulting font size of any ...